OOC: This battle is between Xeios and I. Standard rules apply. The setting is much like the grand canyon.

BIC: Erabus stood at the Great Ravine. He walked over to the edge of the large canyon. Places like this fueled his hatred, people wasting their time staring into nothingness. Erabus extended a tenticle from his armor like coating, and he used it to grab a citizen and hurl him over the edge. The air was dry and the soil was suffering the same thirst.

Xeios overlooked the ravine, there were passersby who seemed intent on staring all day. Staring all day, at least until Erabus flung one of them into the ravine. Their screams of terror at the tentacle coming from the strange man wearing strange garb's body, and they ran themselves clear of the area. All left, except for Xeios.

"That was quite unnecessary, he probably would've fallen on his own."

Xeios turned away from Erabus, scanning over the vast canyon, soaking in it's true beauty. A pathway in the world, carved so deep to show the sheer force of nature. An immovable object such as the earth, being eroded over thousands of years through a war of attrition. Xeios crossed his arms, the cloth bandages wrapped around them, crisscrossing over one another, binding in a sheer amount of energy. As well as sharing a practical purpose, to keep his hands from being injured during fisticuffs.

Upon his waist, his unassuming revolver sat, nestled gently in a worn leather holster. What other tricks did Xeios have about his body? Impossible to gauge at a glance. Also, what other tricks did Erabus have up his sleeve? Hard to tell as well, but Xeios could feel the corrupt nature of his soul, he could feel the eternal torment surrounding his body in an air of misanthropy.

"I have a feeling that your crimes have been far worse than that. Who am I to judge though? Should we declare ourselves a bout to decide what just punishment is due for your years of devious deeds?"

Erabus turned to the man talking. "He would've fallen eventually, I just didn't want to wait." As he spoke the tenticle retracted into Erabus' arm. His body was coated in the black sludge covering him like an armor. "As for a fight," Erabus raised his hand and from his palm the sludge formed into another tenticle that rapidly rushed towards Xeios. The odds of a dodge were high but the attack would prepare him for the fight he was in for.

Xeios stepped a few feet to the side when he saw the incoming strike, avoiding it completely. His hands seemed to activate with a light blue glow, absorption powers activating, and drawing proximity energy from the soul attack to energize himself.

"What, pray tell, did you intend that attack to accomplish?"

Xeios mocked, he hoped to anger his foe, which shouldn't be too hard, seeing as how his entire method of combat appeared to be made out of pure hatred. Xeios needed Erabus at his best to find him worthy.

"This" As he spoke Erabus forced spikes to erupt from the tenticle, which he then swung towards Xeios. Erabus then forced his other hand (right) into a blade and sent that at Xeios' legs. The combination of attacks would be very difficult to dodge.

Xeios' arms glowed with a light hue as he ducked the tentacle that swung towards him. He then dove forward, both fists forward, in an attempt to strike Erabus in the chest, hopefully knocking him off balance. The act of leaping forward caused him to dodge the stab at his legs. Xeios was shimmering white with the power of his defensive magics.

Erabus watched as Xeios leapt at him. Retracting his other attacks back, Erabus erupted spikes from his torso. Xeios was already in motion, and the spikes were racing towards Xeios. Also the spiked tenticle and sword were on either side of his opponent.

Erabus could not have known the nature of the aura surrounding Xeios, it was a powerful defensive magic, specifically: a defensive magic which worked best against other magic. The spikes, being made of a magical energy, would cause no harm to Xeios from his current attack. In fact, the spikes would most likely enhance Xeios, due to his absorption abilities. So Xeios did not withdraw his attack, nor try to dodge in any way, continuing with his dive. Upon completing his dive, he planned on rolling closer to Erabus, and placing another charged punch to his gut.

Erabus quickly retracted his tenticle and sword arms. Xeios might have defensive magicbut that wouldn't stop a spike from piercing his chest if he wasn't careful but, as Xeios continued his charge forward, Erabus began to move backward continueing to send his spikes towards Xeios and expanding the area they covered until there was a large spiked wall extending from Erabus' chest.

Xeios saw the continued increase of spikes in the area before him, and slammed his hands into them to stop himself. The defensive magic protected him from getting hurt, and allowed him to grab hold of the spikes for a moment. He leapt to the right, getting away from the expanding wall of spikes, and gaining a different vantage point on the fight. As he leapt to the side, he fired a blast of white hot energy, the energy was fired as soon as he gained line of sight with Erabus, so it would be difficult to detect.

Erabus felt Xeios grab the spikes, he also felt when Xeios pushed himself off of the spikes and he felt which direction he was going. Erabus quickly formed the spikes into a large hammer, extending fom his chest, and spun on his heels moving his chest alongside Xeios. Since Xeios would still be in motion switching his momentum would be difficult and, the spin allowed Erabus to quickly dodge the attack thrown at him.

Once the spikes had turned into a hammer, Xeios aimed his initial blast lower. He was aiming for Erabus' legs, which would have to stay rooted in place for him to continue this attack. Since Erabus was spinning, he would have a difficulty noticing the change to Xeios' attack.

The way Xeios intended on dodging the hammer was simple, keep running in a circle, just faster than Erabus could spin.

For Erabus to move his legs out of the way of Xeios' blast would be ludacris but, Erabus sent two tenticles from his back to the ground using that force to push himself away from Xeios' blast and into the path that Xeios was running. As he watched Xeios near he quickly turned his left hand into another large hammer and swung it at Xeios, who now was running away from one hammer into another.

Xeios saw the incoming hammer, and did a powerslide under it. Both hammers should now be racing on a collision course with momentum towards each other, and with all of the erratic movements Erabus has been making he shouldn't be able to stop and redirect. As Xeios slid under the hammer, he drew his revolver, and fired a single shot at Erabus' side, approximately where his kidney was. Since Erabus was extending most of his soul-weapon/armor into large hammers, it was very unlikely that he would retract the soul in time, if he even managed to notice the gunshot entirely. It would be especially tough since from the angle Xeios was at, Erabus would have no way of seeing Xeios even draw his weapon, let alone know where he planned on firing it.

OOC: I'm looking at you. Like directly at you. Also the armor is fueled by his hate...and he hates everything.

BIC: Erabus watched as the hammers collided, he also watched as Xeios fired his revolver. The bullet was racing towards him, although he didn't try to avoid it, instead allowing the bullet to hit and bounce off of his armor. Turning to Xeios, he retracted the hammers back into his body. "You'll have to do better than that." As he spoke Erabus began running at Xeios, his left hand coming to a fine point and his right becoming a clawed hand.

Xeios lifted his arms up, and held them in front of himself defensively, Erabus wanted something better? He could come and take it, at least, he could try to take it. He thought for a moment, Erabus could feel when Xeios grabbed the soul-weapon, that meant that since it was an extension of himself, it would make a great channel for an attack. With that thought, Xeios began charging energy, focusing it on his hands.

Erabus closed in on Xeios who made the grand mistake of remaining stationary. As he closed in Erabus leapt into the air, twisted his body 180 degrees and landed behind Xeios, he then lunged forward with his pointed hand.

Xeios spun to face Erabus, as he leapt over head. When Erabus landed and attacked, Xeios swung his right arm, to meet Erabus' left, attempted to grab the pointed hand by the dull part, and forced ten thousand watts of electrical energy into it. Seeing as how Erabus was mid-attack, he would need to revoke such an attack to save himself from damage. Though, admittedly, there would be no real reason for Erabus to draw back his attack, he believes himself to be invincible at this current point.

Erabus didn't retract his blow, instead he protruded a spike from where Xeios' hand would soon be, also he swung with his clawed hand at Xeios' throat. If Xeios wanted to survive he'd try to dodge, retracting his electric attack.

Xeios kept his hand moving, except instead of grabbing, he intended merely to tap his foe. The spike made this awfully convenient for him, because one point would be coming out farther than the rest, and it would be much easier for Xeios to lightly tap said spike, resulting in the electricity being transferred over. He then brought his left arm up, covered in defensive magic and blocked the incoming claw, holding it at bay.